It's finally in the App Store for $40USD, if you've been complaining about Mac gaming nows the time to support even if you don't play it ha. A couple of reviews are already out as well that state you get a solid 60FPS with very little heat/fan noise.
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Resident Evil Village Out Now!
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I am very impressed. My M1 Max 16" handles this game at 2560x1600 with mostly 80 to 100fps at max settings. Great graphics, smooth gameplay. Power draw is between 40 and 80 watts. Looking forward to play it through. Will post a screen cap later.
Edit: Here are the videos including Metal Performance HUD. Captured using the built-in screen recording utility.
Internal Screen with no VSync at 2560x1600:
External Screen with VSync (=75fps limit) at 2560 x 1440:
Edit: Here are the videos including Metal Performance HUD. Captured using the built-in screen recording utility.
Internal Screen with no VSync at 2560x1600:
External Screen with VSync (=75fps limit) at 2560 x 1440:
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Here's another one inside the castle. Shows the graphics pretty well.
Also tested the game on a 4k TV with native resolution and unchanged max settings. Runs mostly 60fps as well with surprisingly few dips into the 50 or 40 range.
Also tested the game on a 4k TV with native resolution and unchanged max settings. Runs mostly 60fps as well with surprisingly few dips into the 50 or 40 range.
Any news on an Intel version? By all accounts the 5700 XT is more powerful than a base M1 so hopefully they're working on it...
Yes, and very well so it seems.
It's Apple Silicon exclusive because it's heavily optimized for this platform. That's why it runs so well across all M1 and M2 Macs.
Already bought it. I will definitely be playing this after work.
I seen a video of someone running it on an m1 air at 1080p and was running great as well! Awesome to see its living up to the performance hype they were promising
I really hope this opens the door to inspiring other game developers to port over or create AAA games for M1/M2 Macs!
All m series chips are supported
In a perfect scenario they should get a big multiplayer game like call of duty then a new title like GTA 6.
Cool but a completely different beast all together especially when talking about a laptop that has the fans barely running, cool to the touch, and can be played on battery with no performance loss.
Ill def be purchasing this, just to support Mac gaming as the OP said. Looks pretty great, hopefully more games follow
@sunny5 So my M1 Max experience roughly matches an RTX3060 but at the fraction of the power draw. Not too shabby, I'd say.
So far M1 Max = laptop 3080 which is proven unlike what PC users said. We'll see if M1 Ultra match up with RTX 3090.
I thought people said ray tracing wasn’t going to be possible on the M chips but it seems like it is which is neat.
The problem is that Apple Silicon chip does not have RT cores but it's easy to add anyway. Cant say it's impossible but ray tracing is only for gaming so not sure if Apple adds RT cores or not.
It's not though because you didn't match the graphics settings using native resolution without upscaling. You used 'quality' upscaling which gives about 25% boost in fps for lower image quality (softer and less detail). Without upscaling you'd probably get ~74fps putting baby in crib scene compared to mobile 3060 that does 98fps at native resolution. M1 Ultra 64GPU would be closer to mobile 3060.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/resident-evil-8-village-benchmark-test-performance/3.html
M1 Max's performance at full setup is already RTX 3060 desktop version. I have no idea what you are talking about. M1 Ultra = RTX 3060? Are you kidding?It's not though because you didn't match the graphics settings using native resolution without upscaling. You used 'quality' upscaling which gives about 25% boost in fps for lower image quality (softer and less detail). Without upscaling you'd probably get ~74fps putting baby in crib scene compared to mobile 3060 that does 98fps at native resolution. M1 Ultra 64GPU would be closer to mobile 3060.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/resident-evil-8-village-benchmark-test-performance/3.html
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Mobile 3060 at same native resolution and graphics settings is faster than M1 Ultra 48GPU so closer to 64GPU. For GPU compute workloads such as Blender it's ~2x faster. Mobile RTX3000 is old news anyway with even faster mobile RTX4000 coming out soon.
Blender BMW (lower time is better)
16.39s - Nvidia mobile 3060
34s - M1 Ultra 64GPU
37s - M1 Ultra 48GPU
Mobile 3060
M1 Ultra 48GPU
Mobile 3060 at same native resolution and graphics settings is faster than M1 Ultra 48GPU so closer to 64GPU. For GPU compute workloads such as Blender it's ~2x faster. Mobile RTX3000 is old news anyway with even faster mobile RTX4000 coming out soon.
Blender BMW (lower time is better)
16.39s - Nvidia mobile 3060
34s - M1 Ultra 64GPU
37s - M1 Ultra 48GPU
Mobile 3060
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M1 Ultra 48GPU
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LOL, you are comparing with UNSUPPORTED game and not even optimized for Apple Silicon. What kind of comparison is that? Epic fail.